I tried to send a message to Emmanuel Macron via http://www.elysee.fr/ecrire-au-president-de-la-republique
Of course, this is France, and if you enter the CAPTCHA code correctly (15 times) it still doesn’t send.
So here is my open letter to the lying bastard who is running the country I am unfortunate enough to live in.
Dear Mr Macron,
I feel totally let down by you. I am an American, an entrepreneur, with a French-German partner. We moved to France on 1 July 2017 from Köln and my life has become a living hell.
I do not count as a real person here, as an American / non EU person, I am treated like an animal by your government and country, and as a freelancer / self employed person? Forget it. I am nothing here.
I am heartbroken and frustrated especially after all your speeches encouraging Americans and entrepreneurs (I am both!!) that we are welcome here, to come to France, and it is totally not set up to accommodate us. I have lived in the U.K., the Netherlands, Germany and I have never gone through so much administrative hell as I have with France. When will you actually change these restrictive laws and make your promises possible? As currently I feel your words carry no meaning. Of course you were the preferred choice to your opponent but I am completely disappointed by your empty words and promises. It’s been so bad for me, for us, that my French — German partner (born in Strasbourg to a French mother and German father) — he’s had a French passport for years. Today he went to the German embassy to obtain a German passport since he is now embarrassed to be French after all we have gone through. I am planning on sending you a letter outlining everything we have suffered here. But you need to know that your country and government are a hostile place to Americans / non EU and to entrepreneurs. And god help you if you’re both. This country punishes the entrepreneurial spirit.
